Hi I am starting Cloud Computing projects in a company. This is just startup phase for the project. I need to prepare consolidated plan for the project. i.e. what a company will achieve in 2 weeks, 3 weeks…month (with open source).
Can you suggest where can I start with cloud computing project for a IT company? How should company proceed with different cloud computing milestones? What is the cloud computing area where I can get more customers?
Any help is appreciated.
Thnx
When we say cloud computing projects there are a variety of things that can be possible :
Enabling some of the existing products to work with the cloud. i.e. when some of your resources are in the cloud or rest of your data in at your premises.
Enabling an existing project to work in the cloud : This is about porting a product to work in a IaaS platform like Amazon EC2,RackSpace, gogrid. etc.
Developing a product using some of the existing cloud providers which give Platform as a service. : For example Amazon,SalesForce.com,GoogleApp Engine,Microsoft Azure.
Creating your own cloud infrastructure .
Some of the key aspects that need to be considered when you are building a cloud application are how to make your application a truly scalable,elastic,secure,Fault resilient, stateless design, Highly parallel etc. Read More here : http://jineshvaria.s3.amazonaws.com/public/cloudarchitectures-varia.pdf
In my opinion some of the above three areas you could find some good customers in the 3rd area where you could develop some quick portals for some of the customers. These sites can be built from scratch in almost no time with the in built capabilities of the Platform ( Google Apps in one such free platform) Other areas as mentioned above could be about making some of the existing products to work coherently with the cloud infrastructure at the same time it could well be about porting projects which would be about porting the existing products into the cloud and at the same time ensure that exploits all the capabilities provided by vendors like amazon to make a truly scalable cloud product.
You're serious? Someone's suggested you just start a random "cloud project"? Damn I knew that space was overhyped but that's ridiculous. Hey hire me...I could be a contractor. A cloud contractor. My rate's $1500 a day plus expenses mwahhhhahahaa
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